The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-01-01
Death Of John A. Logan.

Logan died at 2:56 O'Clock this after
noon. His death, which came with
startling suddenness to his family and
friends, had not been unexpectedly his
physicians for some days. The ten.
dency toward brain complication,
which had been present in q greater or
less degree and had been constantly In.
creastpg in severity during his entire
illness, had prepared them to expect
the worst. The racking pains which
he suffered during his illness yielded
to treatment, but left him in q weak
and exhausted condition, from which
he never rallied, and upon which the
fever preyed with increasing violence
until the hour of his death.
After last night his pulse grew
weaker and weaker, and at 4 o'clock
this morning his condition was sucll as
to cause great fear Of his immediate
death. After this he rallied somewhat
and at the consultation, which
was held at 8 O'Clock this morning,
his pulse was found TO be somewhat
stronger, but his general condition was
not such as to give any hope of ulti-
mate recovery. DR.. Baxter relieved
DIR. Hamilton at the conclusion of the
consultation, and continued in constant
attendance until the Generals death.
The physicians again met in consult
tation at l 80 p. M, when it was appa.
rent that the patient was rapidly sink.
ing and could live but few hours. At
p o'clock the General revived suf1-
GENTLY to recognize his wife, who has
been at his bedside night and day dur
ing his entire illness. AS she spoke to
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who " ere present knew that he recog-
nized her. This was the last manifes.
tation of consciousness. He then wears
lily closed his eyes and sunk again into
a lethargic sleep, from which he never
woke.
While the public has been aware for
a week or moro that Gen. Logan was
confined to his loom with rheumatism
many, even of his most intimate
friends, were, as late as yesterday after.
noon, unsuspicious of the serious char.
acter of the attack, and to the masses
the announcement OF this mornings
paper that the statesman lay at deaths
door brought a shock of sorrowful sur
prise. All day long the carriages Of
sympathetic callers have occupied the
space in front of Calument place, while
hundreds of pedestrians, Of all walks
in life, have climbed the hill upon
which the Logan mansion stands to
ask if it were true that all hope was
past.
Scores Of kilograms OF coincidence
have been pouring in during the day
from all parts of the country, among
the latest being from ex-senator Conk.
ling, expressing lno credit to the re-
ported imminence OF the danger and
asking for Information.
The doctors gave no word of hope
during the day, yet the attendants as
late as this noon refused to give full
credence 10 the alarming bulletins, and
whispered TO ipquirers something OF
the chances that the sturdy frame of
the sufferer and the united skill of the
consulting physicians would bring a
revival of vitality sufficient to domi-
nate the insiduous poison in his frame.
But in the afternoon no one ventured
to express hope that the sufferer
would last during the day. Intimate
friends gathered with the grief-stricken
and almost frantic relatives about the
bedside, while in the spacious hall and
patlurs below sad throng remained
in hushed expec,ance.
The stifled sobs of the wife and chill
dren and the iuarticulate utterances of
the dying man were audible at times
throughout the mansion.
At 2:55 o'clock DIR. Baxter came out
of the sick room, and said TO one who
was waiting for intelligence:
"Simply say he is Dying" Then the
voice of prayer at the bedside rose
above the sobs of the stricken mourn
ers, and with its end ended the life OF
the warrior statesman.